The Power of Being Affected

The way in which spinoza views people is very, very beautiful. It's even more beautiful when one sees the objections that people made to him. Spinoza says broadly that itis fulfilled in any case, but it can be fulfilled in two fashions. Everything depends on the assemblage. When i'm sad, my power of acting necessarily diminishes. This is no longer the aristotelian world, which is a world of analogy. The labour of the negative or the sad passions are those which fulfil my power of being affected in conditions such that my power of act diminish. And why when my affects are sad, is my power ofacting diminished, while my